<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div dir="ltr"> </div> <div id="yiv702566949"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div id="yiv702566949"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Energy Futures and Health Conference </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "
class="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_19_134806633628758">Part 2: How Ontario Can Lead Canada to a Low-Carbon Economy</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_19_134806633628758">Notes taken on Sept 12th at First United Church in Waterloo</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_19_134806633628758">___________________________________________________________</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
">First Speaker: Rev. Ted Reeve</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479279"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">"Climate change is a spiritual issue" says David Suzuki. Spirituality is at the core of how we think.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479299"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Traditionalists view Genesis 1:26 that states Humankind is in our own image, that man has dominion over the earth. It places man in the #1 position. Politician Rick Santorum spoke out against President Obama saying that human well being should come first, stewardship #2. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792108"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Moderates believe that we should be good stewards. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792117"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792124">Radicals have the view that the
faster we conquer the earth, the faster the rapture. </font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792127"><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792137"></font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792132">Eco Theology places greater emphasis on the second chapter of Genesis where humans are a part of creation. We are connected to it and with each other fostering a feeling of awe and respect. It embraces science, biology, Quantum logic in a creative way.
It connects us with all of creation in a web of life that governs our choices.</font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792168"><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792178"></font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792173">Pipelines are not just about humans and money issues. It places nature 2nd as an outcome. We need to plan holistically to plan forward. </font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792196"><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792199"></font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792185">Faith communities need to rethink their places of worship to do things more sustainably with awareness of our own actions and connections to nature and community. </font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">______________________________________________________</div><div
id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792221"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Second Speaker: John Howard MD</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792230"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Death per 100 GWH according to study published in
Scientific America Magazine </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">US health burden of fossil fuel. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">4040 Pneumonia</font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">9720 Cardiovascular</font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
">30,100 Premature deaths</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">5, 230,000 Lost work days</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">603,000 Asthma</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">59,000 Bronchial </font></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">(for Canada's rates, take 10% of the figures) <br
id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792274"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792283"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Envision three circles drawn one inside the other. The centre circle has Health as the core representing nutritional, community, mental, and physical health. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The second circle in the middle shows Environmental, Social, Economic and Political factors influencing
health</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The third circle enveloping all others is Spiritual, Moral and Ecosystem health. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792311"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Aboriginal communities cherish the earth as a mother to life. Decisions made must have regard to the impacts
of people born 7 generations later. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792320"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Currently, the costs associated with human need are high. We need to secure safe water, our national debt is growing, we have housing and education expenses to deal with. The list is long but we can actually pay off ALL of it for $150.5 billion which is equal to 19.1% of military spending in the US. Alternative security can be changed. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792331"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">What is the crisis? War, overpopulation, climate change, pollution? NO...It's EXPECTATIONS ie: car, personal luxeries, house etc. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Collisions of expectations means our culture has a lust for energy as long as we can't see it, smell it, hear it or feel it. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; ">__________________________________________________________________</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792356"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Third speaker: James Glaive from Tides Canada. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792367"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Imagine a company called tape master. They had a plan to make lots of money but it unravelled.
Technologies were replaced with mail in movies, wireless technologies and a shift happened but they ignored it. They were arrogant and defiant. The shift continued and Tapemaster went away because it was only a service provider, not a retailer. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792381"></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;"><font id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_1348027354792392" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">How to relate to this? Canada with it's dependence is like Tapemaster. Any changes will take decades to manifest. The current model is to dig, drill, sell and ship and burn for energy
for transportation, water, manufacturing. </font><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">15% GDP for revenue funded services. We rely on fuel today but the model is
changing. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Other nation's are using safe clean renewable and local solutions for energy and services. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">In 2010 more was invested in </font>renewable<font size="3"> than on gas, coal or oil. Huge money is being spent by China to reduce oil was 27 billion this year. There are 1/2 a billion green energy jobs in China.</font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">In the US, young people are not interested in driving cars. They are using alternative means of transportation. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">In Europe, 70% of their new electricity is renewable energy</font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Japan has seen a solar boom since
Fukushima. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">The global transition to clean energy is cheaper, better, gives more savings and produces more local revenues. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">EV cars can go farther on the same charge due to battery advancements</font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">The world's thirst for green energy will decline before resources do. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Investments will slash demand as the world shifts and like Tapemaster, Canada's economy will collapse unless we change the plan</font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">This is real, it's not going away, we need a strategy to help us through the change.</font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Energy strategy does not mean more pipelines and if we can embrace the changes we could do something regarding Climate change.</font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">Canada is a resource commodity nation today but it won't last because change is happening. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">A National Energy
Strategy must address efficiency, green jobs, reduce fossil fuels down to only 30% oil and gas. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;"><font size="3">In July all premiers wanted to pursue a more integrated approach to climate change carbon reduction and the implementation of renewable energy but the Prime Minister declined to discuss the matter. </font></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Tides Canada is calling for bold initiatives to
secure a Clean Energy Accord. It is supported by 700 Companies, CAW, Canadian Sustainable Energy Association, Oil Sands Workers etc. For more information please visit: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cleanenergycanada.org/">http://cleanenergycanada.org/</a></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">History is in your hands. Make the change happen!</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
">________________________________________________________________________________</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Fourth speaker: Tim Weis Pembina</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Advancing Ontario's Clean energy Future</div><div
id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Technology to go to renewable energy already exists.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Airborn mercury, emissions, CO2 are serious problems and Pembina is working to do projects to help save energy to reduce
impacts. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Arctic Melt is not really making the news as shocking but Greenland melting is a canary in the mine. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">We will all be affected by climate change by way of food, transportation, crop failures etc. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">2 degree difference is the safe limit
according to scientists from now until 2040 but after that the issue is out of our hands. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">We must act today as if today is 2040. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">We must commit to 607 megatonnes for 2020 and there is no quick fix for that. We have 10 sources of Green House Gas emissions to deal with and we must tackle all of them.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Between 2004 to 2007 renewable investments doubled <span
style="background-color:transparent;">In 2010 half of new electricity was renewable. There has been 30% growth since 2009. </span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">From 2005 to 2010 solar saw 80% growth, wind saw 27%. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">The US is leading Green energy movement followed by China and Germany</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">In Germany green jobs in renewable are going up, coal is going down. </div><div
id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Over 1/2 the US states have mandated renewable energy programs</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Texas gets 600MW from Wind employing 9000 people. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">Sarah Palin started a renewable energy program in Alaska so there is Republican support too. It is a non-partisan issue. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">Graph shown re: Normalized to Baseload NGCC by TransAlta </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242"
style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">Denmark will have 52% wind power by 2020 and 100% renewable by 2050. This motion was passed 171 to 8. They stated: We know it costs but it is the best insurance policy for Denmark.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Ontario is phasing out coal by 2014</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Ontario wind/bioenergy/solar is the future. Natural gas is only transitional.</div><div
id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">Energy prices will rise normally over time but we did witness a spike in prices when Darlington Nuclear went on-line.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">Pickering Nuclear is at end of life. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">Much of our energy infrastructure needs rebuild/refurbishment. Approx. 1/2. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">We can use funds to expand renewables. We can remove gas using wind power. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">IESO report released December 2011 <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">www.</span><b
style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">ieso</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">.ca/imoweb/pubs/corp/</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">IESO</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">_</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">2011</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Annual</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: small; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Report</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">.pdf</span></div><div
id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">3rd Party data with US and Natural Resources shows without renewable energy, energy prices will still increase. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">If nuclear is on time on budget (it would be the first time ever, highly unusual) Prices will go down. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Alberta prices will go up 50%</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Green House Gas and Mercury levels in Ontario are going down</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">32% of our GHG is linked to transportation.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242"
style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">General Q&A to all panelists:</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Nuclear like natural gas is a transition tool. We prefer to promote nuclear. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; ">On budget on time for nuclear is a very generous assumption. New Brunswick struggled with it and went bankrupt. Quebec is phasing it out and it doesn't look like the puck is going towards nuclear power.</div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">When it comes to nuclear energy we still don't realistically examine health costs associated. It's not safe and we still don't factor in the costs of nuclear debris which should be included. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">In European
framework, individual communities are taking the lead to go 100% renewable energy. Some communities use sheep as lawnmowers! We need to create overall policy and still allow for local solutions. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;">We have the technology but the choice is do we want it or not. We could establish new rules for feed in tarrif where we sell 1/2 the project to community and community gets 80% of the cost. Do Ontario residents think that way? Do we have the culture to make it happen? We need to speak with government about ideas like this. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Faith communities make up 8-10% of return with faith community projects. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">End of notes. </div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 153, 51); line-height: 14px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></div><div id="yiv702566949yui_3_2_0_15_134802735479242" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
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